The main inspiration for Graham Mckean’s art work is the human figure.His subject matter is a mixture of natural observation and experience and he successfully merges imagination with reality. McKean’s paintings and limited edition prints are often humorous, but there is a serious side to the works.

Graham McKean limited edition prints are the result of his creative and fertile imagination. However he does seek to explore the day to day experiences of everyday life with the prints often bordering on the surreal. From beach bathers to sailors and clowns, his limited edition prints communicate an air of intrigue and an element of the surreal which immediately engages the viewer. McKean uses bright colours, humour and iconic images to explore the day to day experiences and his paintings and limited edition prints seem to capture the emotion of a single moment in time.

Richard Thorn is a highly successful British artist who was born and still lives in the West Country. Growing up living close to the sea and the rich Devon landscape has had an ongoing influence on Richard’s art work. His is consistently drawn to the majesty and grandeur of his native South Devon landscapes and seascapes.

Richard Thorn studied art at the Newton Abbot School of Art in the 1960’s. His early career was in music sector and he became an accomplished Jazz Guitarist. In the early 1980’s Richard Thorn began painting professionally. Since then he has produced many paintings and limited edition prints of the beautiful Devon and Cornish landscape and coastline. Like many British artists Richard has been drawn to the “quality of light” that the region is known for.

Richard is an intuitive artist, preferring to paint from ‘feeling’ rather than an academic standpoint. He creates paintings and limited edition prints using dramatic splashes of tone and colour succesfully capturing the bright and suffuse light. His paintings and limited edition prints have been shown in many British art exhibitions and galleries and his work is increasingly appreciated by UK art collectors and by those further afield.

The latest prints are a limited edition series of 195 for each print. For further details please contact the gallery.

David Inshaw paints, etches and draws. He is one of Britain’s leading contemporary artists and studied painting at the Beckenham School of Art from 1959 to 1963 followed by three years at the Royal Academy Schools in London. In 1964 was awarded a French Government Scholarship to study and live in Paris for six months. He received a fellowship in art at Trinity College, Cambridge and since 1977 has worked full time as a painte. During the 1970s Inshaw was a member of the Brotherhood of Ruralists exhibiting alongside Peter Blake and Graham Ovenden. He left the group in 1983.

David Inshaw stimulus has always been people and places. Reading Thomas Hardy had a decisive impact on the direction of his paintings, and led to a series of ambitious landscape compositions based on the countryside in Wiltshire, England. Global Art Prints have a portfolio of Inshaw’s limited edition prints and art prints including his iconic Badminton Game which was originally titled after a poem by Thomas Hardy and is one of a number limited edition prints influenced by the landscape of Wiltshire. Inshaw has written ‘my main aim was to produce a picture that held a moment in time, but unlike a photograph, which only records an event. I thought a painting could give a more universal, deeper meaning to that moment by composing one instant from lots of different unrelated moments.’ He has written of ‘the mystery and wonder I felt all around me in this magic place’.

A book on life and work of David Inshaw titled: ‘David Inshaw: Between Fantasy and Reality’ has been written by Andrew Lambirth and is published by Tabrett’s Publishers

Global Art Prints has just released four new limited edition prints from successful British artist Adam Barsby. Barsby who has been painting professionally since the mid 1990’s studied and graduated at the Kent Institute of Art and Design in Maidstone. Since then he has exhibited at many prestigious UK art galleries producing many highly sought after original paintings which have been reproduced as a range of limited editions prints and original silkscreen prints.

Adam Barsby art prints display his unique view of the world captured by the use of simplified stylised images and rich colours. Inspiration for Barsby’s art work and limited edition prints comes from many sources. The latest art prints are situational observations capturing the fun and movement of three party loving girls in exaggerated poses. There are four new Limited Edition Prints now available from Global Art Prints. They are all produced on canvas and the edition series is limited to 95.

The four new Limited Edition Prints are now available from leading art gallery Red Rag. Anna Pugh was born in 1938 and is now one of the leading British folk artists. Her limited edition prints are in the collections of many British and European art collectors. The latest limited edition prints are guaranteed to expand the ever growing list of art admirers and collectors.

Anna Pugh limited edition prints display touches of the surreal. Few British artists equal her ability to record natural phenomena and to invigorate it with such persuasive illusion. Her Limited Edition Prints have the freshness and irreverent vitality of life lived close to nature. They are prints that people enjoy living with, recording the countryside; the flora and fauna and the changing seasons.

The latest prints are limited to 95 prints in the series. For further details please contact the gallery.

The next British Art show at Red Rag’s Cotswold Gallery is a very British exhibition featuring the paintings of John Lines. Today’s featured image is one of the new art pieces (‘On Late’) which will be included in the forthcoming exhibition.

Demand for John Lines oil paintings and Giclee is always high and we are expecting this latest exhibition to attract plenty of interest and sales. The show takes place from 20 February. For further information please contact the gallery.

Anne Magill was born in Northern Ireland in 1962. She studied at St. Martins School of Art in LondonAnne’s art works are in Corporate Collections such as British Airways, Nike and Levi Strauss plus selected Private Collections including an astonishing list of Hollywood stars, directors and producers including Nicole Kidman – Russell Crowe – Josephine Hart.

Magill’s images always fascinate the viewer. The narrative compositions draw the viewer to speculatie on the possible relationships observed in the art works. The subjects of Anne’s limited edition prints are placed in the twentieth century, but they have a timeless quality crossing back and forth over the generations.All limited edition prints are signed by the artist. The edition numbers are limited to just 175 copies.